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Prepare thoroughly. Commit totally. Deliver.
We win as a team, we lose as a team and we're up at the crack of dawn as a team. That's the only way we'll be the best. World-class performances and the biggest prizes in the sport don't come without sacrifice, without commitment. As the saying goes, if it doesn't hurt, you're not trying hard enough. And I've got 21 other guys who won't let me forget it. Of course I want to win. But when there's 22 of you, that desire is in the air, every second of every day. Because no matter how punishing the training, we all know how good it feels to be winners.
FedEx and Rugby
At FedEx we understand the sort of commitment that goes into the delivery of a world-class performance, because we do it everyday for businesses around the world. And it's this synergy that makes us so proud to be one of the pillars on which the ERC rely when serving up world-class entertainment, globally. As the Official Carrier, we play a key role in managing all ERC and Heineken Cup deliveries across Europe. Our involvement gives people the chance to be a part of the whole, exciting rugby experience.
Follow us on Twitter @FedExEurope for all the latest fixtures, news and competitions.
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The Heineken Cup
Launched in 1995 to provide a new level of professional, cross-border competition in European rugby, the Heineken Cup has a huge following, which is getting bigger every year. It is one of the most prestigious competitions in world rugby, spanning regional and provincial teams from the six competing countries in Europe.
The 2013/2014 season reaches its climax on the weekend of the 24th May 2014. Cardiff, Wales will host European rugby's showpiece weekend for a record seventh time when the Millennium Stadium stages the Heineken Cup final.
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Focus: As of 2007 what is the fourth and final step in correct scrum procedure, Crouch, Touch, Pause and what?
a) Embrace b) Engage c) Enrage
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Commitment: What is the standard size rugby ball played throughout the world in senior matches?
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Page 1 How Do I Enter the Alternate Route Program? The Alternate Route program is a non traditional teacher preparation progra designed for those individuals who HAVE NOT completed a formal teacher preparation program at an accredited college or university, but wish to obtain the necessary training to become a NJ certified teacher. Completing the Alternate Route program requires that the following series of steps be taken by a prospe ctive applicant in the order listed: 1. Apply for a Certificate of Eligibility (CE) through the Office of Licensure and Academic Credentials (OLC) The
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N° 1–2013: ESA activities in 2013 of interest to media - Update 25 April 2013
25 April 2013
Expected key events of the year (check the ESA website at www.esa.int for the final dates):
The upcoming solar maximum and its impact on planets
In 2013, the Sun will reach a maximum in its 11-year cycle of activity, one which is likely to be the weakest for a century. ESA's fleet of spacecraft currently operating (including SOHO, Cluster, Swarm, Mars Express and Venus Express) will observe at the same time the Sun and the impact of solar activity on our Solar System's three terrestrial planets (providing, for example, an unprecedented view of how magnetic fields shield a planetary atmosphere from powerful solar eruptions).
Expected date: throughout the year
SMOS results conference
Launched in 2009, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is making global observations of soil moisture over land and sea-surface salinity over the oceans to improve our understanding of the water cycle.
Location: ESAC, Madrid (ES)
Date: 22 February
Planck: Cosmic Microwave Background map release
Launched in 2009, Planck studies the Cosmic Microwave Background - the relic radiation from the Big Bang - to allow cosmologists to zero-in on theories that describe the Universe's birth and evolution. The first all-sky images of the Cosmic Microwave Background will be presented at the press conference.
Location: Paris ESA HQ
Date: 21 March
Space debris conference
The International Conference on Space Debris will be held at ESOC. A press conference will be organised at the end of the conference.
Location: ESOC, Darmstadt (Germany)
Date: 25 April
Launch of Proba-V on Vega
Proba-V is a miniaturised satellite for a full-scale mission tracking global vegetation. Along with its main mission, Proba-V also hosts five promising technologies from across Europe that will be demonstrated in space. Proba-V will be launched on the new Vega vehicle, which will on this flight further demonstrate its capability by carrying several payloads for delivery into two very different orbits.
Location: CSG, Europe's Spaceport (French Guiana).
Expected date: 3 May
Launch of Expedition 36 to ISS with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano
Luca Parmitano is assigned to fly on the International Space Station from May to November 2013, serving as a flight engineer for Expeditions 36 and 37. He will be the first astronaut out of the new generation selected in 2009.
Location: Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan; main event in Italy, in cooperation with ASI
Expected date: 29 May
Gaia scientific instrument delivery
Scheduled for launch in the second half of 2013, Gaia is a global space astrometry mission that will make the largest, most precise 3D map of our Milky Way Galaxy by surveying an unprecedented number of stars - more than a billion. The scientific instrument assembly will be delivered in the beginning of 2013. It features the largest digital camera ever to be flown in space.
Location: Astrium, Toulouse (France)
Date: 27 June
Launch of ATV Albert Einstein on Ariane 5
Each Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) can deliver up to 7 tonnes of cargo to the International Space Station, including food, drinking water, gases, research and maintenance equipment and around 3 tonnes of propellants. The versatile craft also regularly boosts the Station's orbit and occasionally manoeuvres the complex to avoid collisions with space debris. With it, Europe is contributing in kind towards its share of the operational costs of the Station. The fourth ATV (ATV-4) is named after Albert Einstein.
Location: CSG, Europe's Spaceport (French Guiana) and ATV Control Centre, Toulouse (France); main European launch event: Ulm (Germany)
Expected date: 5 June
Mars Express 10th Anniversary
The European Mars orbiter will celebrate 10 years in orbit. A media event at ESOC will be the opportunity to release the complete mineralogical map of Mars, in particular hydrates leading to the history of water and supporting the selection of landing sites for the Exomars missions.
Location: ESOC, Darmstadt (Germany)
Date: 3-7 June
50th International Paris Air & Space Show, Le Bourget, France
ESA will be present in the world's largest air and space exhibition with a space pavilion. A media event will be organised.
Location: Le Bourget, Paris (France)
Date: 17-23 June
Launch of Alphasat I-XL on Ariane 5
The Alphasat mission is a Public-Private Partnership between ESA and Inmarsat Global Ltd. ESA is providing the first flight model of the new Alphabus platform. The Alphabus product line allows European industry to extend its telecommunication satellite range significantly beyond the capabilities of the existing platforms, providing a new multipurpose platform targeted on the high-power payload telecommunication satellite market. Alphasat is also carrying four ESA technology demonstration payloads.
Location: CSG, Europe's Spaceport (French Guiana)
Expected date: Summer 2013
James Webb Space Telescope: delivery of NIRSpec
The James Webb Space Telescope will feature several major ESA contributions, including the NIRSpec near-infrared spectrograph. This scientific instrument will allow the continuous observation of 100 faint galaxies to determine their chemical composition, and the rate at which stars are forming. It will also allow astronomers for the first time to detect water on planets around other stars.
Location: EADS Astrium, Ottobrunn (Germany)
Date: July
Launch: Galileo FOC satellites
Following the In-Orbit Validation (IOV) phase, four satellites are being used to qualify the Galileo space, ground and user segment through extensive testing. 2013 will see the launch of the first Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites of the complete constellation with 27 satellites and three spares in orbit. In 2013 two FOC launches are planned, each on a Soyuz launcher with two satellites each.
Location: CSG, Europe's Spaceport (French Guiana)
Expected date: second half of 2013
Launch of Gaia on Soyuz
Gaia is a discovery machine charged with charting our home galaxy, the Milky Way to understand its evolution. Gaia follows in the footsteps of Hipparcos, ESA's first mission to measure the position, distance and properties of stars.
Location: CSG, Europe's Spaceport (French Guiana). Main launch event in Europe: ESOC, Darmstadt (Germany)
Expected date: second half of 2013
Living Planet Symposium
Hundreds of scientists will present and learn about the results of ESA Earth observation missions for Earth's environment and climate. Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Date: 9-13 September
Launch: Swarm, ESA's magnetic field mission
The multi-satellite Swarm mission will make the best survey yet of Earth's magnetic field and its evolution, and improve our knowledge of Earth's interior and climate. Swarm is a constellation of three satellites in three different polar orbits between 400 km and 550 km altitude. High-precision and high-resolution measurements of the strength and direction of the magnetic field will be provided by each satellite.
Location: Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russia). Main launch event to be held at ESOC
Expected date: 4 October
Landing of ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano
After completing his six-month Volare mission on the International Space Station, Luca Parmitano will land on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Location: Baikonour Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) and ESA establishments
Date: November
End of GOCE
Launched in 2009, the successful Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite will end its mission by deorbiting in November 2013.
Date: November
Rosetta is ESA's comet chaser: for the first time, an orbiter and a lander will analyse a comet while it is approaching the Sun. Rosetta may provide us with the missing links in our understanding of the evolution of our Solar system. Rosetta will wake up from its hibernation in January 2014. A press conference will be organised to brief media about the mission milestones in 2014.
Location: ESOC, Darmstadt (Germany)
Date: November
Herschel maps our galaxy
The Herschel mission has been operating since 2009, painstakingly mapping the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way, one small segment at a time. A complete map of the Galactic plane will be released, allowing us to study in detail all the sites where stars are currently being born in our galaxy.
Expected date: end of the year
Skimming the surface of Phobos
Mars Express will perform the closest ever fly-by of martian moon Phobos, passing only 58 km from the moon's centre (or within around 47 km of the moon's surface). Flying so close to the surface will in itself be a navigation feat, and will provide an unprecedented determination of the moon's mass distribution.
Expected date: Flyby will take place on 29 December, with results available in early 2014
Launch of Sentinel-1A on Soyuz
Launching the Sentinel-1 mission will be the first step in the new family of satellites for the GMES programme, in cooperation with the European Commission. The mission will provide operational data for future services that will benefit the citizens of Europe, but it will also ensure data continuity for the many existing projects that have relied on data from ESA's ERS and Envisat satellites.
Location: CSG, Europe's Spaceport (French Guiana)
Expected date: end 2013-early 2014 (still under discussion).
About the European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space.
ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA has 20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, of whom 18 are Member States of the EU.
ESA has Cooperation Agreements with eight other Member States of the EU and is discussing an Agreement with the one remaining (Bulgaria). Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.
By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.
ESA develops the launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the forefront of global space activities.
Today, it launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.
Learn more at www.esa.int
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Update: Our review of the Cy-Fi wireless speakers can be found here
CyFi, maker of great outdoor-oriented speakers for both the iPod and for other portables, have a couple of surprises for TouchMyApps. While the actual arrival date isn't known (the mystery), both the A2DP and Kleer Wireless version will arrive sometime in August for review. Mark my words – I'll be on those like Oprah on a cupcake (the intrigue).
Up till now, I have been using various sports-oriented earphones for riding, an option which is by far the most streamlined, but dangerous avenue available. Not to mention, constantly looking over my shoulder, running sprints and trackstand excercises, makes cabled audio a pain.
Both the Kleer and the A2DP version are available for 159$.


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Gosh, how time flies! This is my 100th post! Seems like yesterday when I first sat down at my desk to start this blog. I hope you have enjoyed all the antiques, collections, travel destinations, homes and gardens featured.
Speaking of gardens, I have a showstopping garden tour to share. Thanks a million to my good friend, fellow blogger and design colleague, Phyllis Higgerson of Henhurst Interiors, for this special guest post on style icon Bunny Williams' magical garden in Connecticut. And for the giveaway - a signed copy of Bunny's classic, top selling book: An Affair With A House.
Phyllis is a brilliant interior designer whose sophisticated work I greatly admire. Enjoy some of her projects on her website, blog and Instagram page - you won't be disappointed!
Take it away, Phyllis!!
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Last weekend I had the pleasure of touring Bunny Williams' Connecticut garden during one of The Garden Conservancy's Open Days in Litchfield County. It was a perfect early summer morning and a joy to explore the varied gardens that surround the house as well as viewing some of the interiors. I came away with a lot of inspiration, and I am thrilled to be sharing here today at Tone on Tone.
The property features two formal gardens (a sunken garden with a lovely water feature and a boxwood parterre), an expansive cutting and vegetable garden complex with an extraordinary chicken coop, woodland trails complete with a cool, bubbling stream, a fruit tree orchard and a classically-inspired pool pavilion with a knock-out view. Let's begin.
Currently blooming amid clipped evergreens and boxwood spheres in the sunken garden to the left of the house were loads of alliums.
A view across the small pool filled with koi and water lilies to a field cut with trails and dotted with birdhouses.
To the right of the house is the barn, a spot for entertaining guests or finding a quiet place to read.
Two things about Bunny Williams that became readily apparent during my tour: she is the consummate hostess and her dogs are truly part of the family. They are welcome everywhere and their comfort is always considered.
The guest room in the barn loft.The parterre garden behind the barn. The structure on the left side of the photo is the conservatory attached to the back of the barn.
On one side of the parterre is a fence that has been allowed to weather grey and is underplanted with hostas. In the center of the two far boxwood beds are dwarf Koren lilacs; in the near beds are two Italian oil jars. One of Bunny's beloved dogs in the lower left hand corner:
The service barn at the vegetable and cutting garden:
An expansive green house over-winters exotic and tropical plants and the potted fig trees currently positioned around the garden.An elegant compost receptacle:
Bunny mentioned the chickens are her husband's passion. They certainly live in high style at the aviary.
The path to the pool house through the orchard of heirloom apple trees:
The pool house was inspired by an 18th-century French garden folly and built to the exact proportions of a classical Greek temple.
It is a magical spot.
Many thanks to our gracious hostess who warmly greeted visitors, made sure we saw everything, and spent time answering questions and signing copies of her books. Much more detail about the garden can be found in An Affair With A House. And many thanks to my dear friend, Loi, for welcoming me to contribute to Tone on Tone.
ABOVE: Bunny Williams
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Wasn't that a lovely tour? Such incredible ornaments, structures and plantings! I love all the "outdoor rooms." Many thanks, Phyllis!!
As mentioned, we have a signed copy of An Affair With A House to give away. Just leave a comment (one per person), and we'll pick the lucky winner via Random.Org on July 8th at 8:00 PM Eastern time. The giveaway is open to all, and the book will be shipped free of charge.


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Guilt and Shame Issues Treatment in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
What Treatments Are Offered in My Practice?
For those who seek complete discretion and a varied and natural approach to their treatment, there is a number of therapies that have demonstrated effectiveness in treating hundreds of clients.
Therapies offered in my practice include Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness techniques, Guided Meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), Matrix Reimprinting, Vibrational Medicine, Breathing Exercises, Emotional Aromatherapy, Energy System Rebalancing, and others.
Regardless of the severity of your condition, or whether you are on medications for it or not, we will find a way to relieve, or eliminate your symptoms. You will be treated here holistically and based on the causes of your issue, not the symptoms. We will consider every possible contributory factor – physical, mental, emotional, even spiritual – to understand and heal the source of your suffering. In fact, very often, simply identifying the source of an issue can result in considerable improvements, even complete recovery.
Therapy also helps people to recognize and access their strength, autonomy, and capacity for change. It opens one's eyes to possibilities once again!


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Storm Paid-For Hotel Rooms Sit Vacant in NYC
Scores of hotel rooms paid for with public money for people displaced by Superstorm Sandy have been vacant for weeks.
The Wall Street Journal says it reviewed documents that 120 rooms at the Milford Plaza Hotel in midtown-Manhattan haven't been used since mid-November. They're part of the city's network of emergency housing for storm victims.
The paper says the cost for the vacant Milford rooms will be just under $1 million.
The Department of Homeless Services says some unused rooms are reserved so they are available if more seek shelter.
After the city closed down temporary shelters, it relocated people to 29 hotels. That will remain in place until they can secure permanent homes.
The city expects FEMA to reimburse it for the hotels.


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The Ravens haven't made a secret of their desire to upgrade the nose guard position, with general manager Ozzie Newsome declaring that intention during a news conference after the Super Bowl.
The Ravens, along with other NFL teams including the Green Bay Packers, have some interest in versatile unrestricted free agent defensive lineman Ricky Jean Francois, according to a league source.
Jean Francois, 26, was a solid rotational player last season on a strong San Francisco 49ers defensive line, lining up at nose guard and both defensive end spots in the 49ers' 3-4 scheme.
The 6-foot-3, 295-pounder is a former LSU standout and seventh-round draft pick who recorded 22 tackles and a sack in three starts last season with two starts at end and one at nose guard, playing in every game. For his career, 51 career games and five starts, Jean Francois has 49 tackles, three sacks and one forced fumble.
He played in 328 snaps and got a positive grade for run defense from Pro Football Focus.
Jean Francois gets high marks as a run-stopper, but isn't considered much of a pass rusher.
That wouldn't necessarily be problem for the Ravens, who are primarily looking for someone to bolster the middle of their run defense.
Jean Francois is a Miami, Fla., native who would seem to fit in perfectly with Ravens Pro Bowl kick returner Jacoby Jones, a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, based on this entertaining locker room dancing routine.
After lackluster seasons by nose guards Terrence Cody and Ma'ake Kemoeatu, the Ravens are expected to address the position through free agency or the NFL draft.
A former second-round draft pick coming off a disappointing season, Cody is likely to face competition inside during training camp. Kemoeatu's agent has said the veteran lineman wants to continue his career, but it's unclear if he's in the Ravens' plans.


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"Guana Island in the British Virgin Islands." —CatamaranSeaChateau
"Any one of the Seychelles." —Karen Huff Cottingham
"Palawan, Philippines." —@jayramablogs
"St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands." —Kristi Urynowicz Boddy
"Ile Saint Louis or Ile de la Cite...unless you mean somewhere tropical." —Tamara M. Goldstein
"Ibiza." —Joseph Galante
"Madagascar." —Christine Carlyle Urick
"Santorini." —Jane Byrd
"The South Island of New Zealand." —Jill Masse Stokes
"I live on Maui and am happy here!" —Norma Eason
"Ireland." —Dana Woods
"Rapa Nui [Easter Island]." —Sergio Hilario
"Anguilla." —Ashley Peterson
"Kauai, for sure. I relax as soon the plane lands at the airport." —Annette Johnson Andrea
"Bali." —Veronica Keke Papilaya Matsuda
"Paxos or Agistri please!" —@wlv_leisure
"Mykonos." —Christy Stoeckel
"Maldives, any day." —Jennifer Hayes
"Galápagos Islands." —Tammy Snyder
"Vis, Croatia." —@MiasCroatia
"Huahine. This is by far my favorite island I've been to. Beautiful lush island, friendly locals, great activities but also a great place to relax. Would love to be stranded there." —Sarah Coutts
"I'd love to be stranded in Martinique!" —@willwrite4food2
"Grenada." —Linda Deters
"I would love to be stranded on Iceland because of the beauty and it has distinct seasons." —Christina MacDonald Bell
"Capri, Italy! Hopefully I'm stranded with a suitcase full of cash!" —Sophia Rigatou
"Roatán, Honduras." —Sigrid Garavito
"Grand Cayman." —Tammy Piazza
"Moorea or Rarotonga." —Judy Garner
"Life on the left lane...St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands." —Lyn Cole
"Labadee, Haiti." —Terri Knespler Pamatat
"Zanzibar." —Theresa Schilling
"Martinique or St. Martin." —Adrienne Smith
"Ischia." —Allison Beards
"Oahu." —@AndreaAslyfox
"Bora Bora." —Anita Mitchell
"Anywhere in the Guadeloupe Islands." —@KaeliTravels
"Manhattan." —@TrippyFood
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Mustard 94519 starting early this year
95684 Somerset, CA Elevation of 2450ft.
There are about 10 huge plants on a south facing slope that started blooming yesterday and this is about 4-5 weeks early for us. The buds on the north facing side and ones in the shade are still tightly closed but my bees are going crazy for the open ones today as the high is supposed to be close to 60 deg and the low last night was 28 deg. I haven't seen any evidence of other Manzanita in the area blooming yet but I haven't really looked either.
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Redwood City, CA. Eucalyptus is blooming, and Acacia is almost there. Lots of mustard as well.
Riverside County CA
Just got the first blooms on my lemon tree, Still has fruit on it from last season. Bees are strongly working Rosemary and one Eucalyptus tree that just bloomed. Many more Eucalyptus ready to pop open. Nights are down to about 33-35 F with one night dropping to 27F. Days warm to mid 50's but today warmer at 67F. Last month (Dec) bees were working pollen on a Loquat tree. Rain here two weeks ago, hillsides now sprouting grasses.
Peach tree is in bloom and they are really working it.Bees on peach blossom 004.jpgBees on peach blossom 005.jpgBees on peach blossom 005.jpgBees on Peach blossom 026.jpg
3/3/2013 finally started detailed gardening.
Socal Diamond Bar CA 91765 Hardiness zone 10A
Daffodils already flowered
moro blood orange tree is starting to bud
orange tree is starting to bud
lemon tree has flowers here and there
rosemary has been flowering on and off
peach tree is beginning to bud
green guava is flowering on the top canopy
aloe vera is shooting up stalks with flowers that will bloom soon
Loquat is beginning to bear green unripe fruit the size of my thumb
apricot tree is blooming
Lavender dentata (french lavender) flowering/flowered
I have 4 other plants/trees i do not know of the names but they are flowering
(if i post pictures can you guys help ID them for me?)
Today has been a wonderful day, i opened up my hive for inspection and after i remove the lid and set it aside, i see my queen run around the top of the frames and crawled onto my hive tool. 1st month into bee keeping and first time i saw my queen since i got my hive.
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91311 Santa Susana Pass between Simi Valley and Chatsworth, California
15 May, 2013
Blooms just open and still in the white - no pink nor rust yet. VERY few bees.
93023 Ojai, California
Sage has been extermely poor this year as last year - perhaps due to no rain before the bloom date?
Black Mustard has been going strong for 6 weeks, and should continue through fall.
Matilija Poppy is out last 2 weeks and should continue through June.
Many asters sp. in bloom - VERY FEW bees on them.
California Pepper Trees just opening now - LOTS of bees going berzerk on them.
Golden Oak trees in bloom - some attention from bees
some poison oak already in bloom (very early) and the bees are loving it.
93023 Ojai, California
California poppies opened yesterday, plenty of bees
Lupine open with bees
Organ pipe cactus had 2 flowers and 27 bees "discussing" who's turn it was at 6:30 am this morning!
(I think they really like it!)
Persimmon opened up today
Bottlebrush has been in bloom for at least a week, the bees are all over it with bigger loads on their pollen baskets than I have ever seen.
Laurel sumac should bloom tomorrow. Bees are on it early.
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Southern california
Diamond Bar Ca 91765
Zone 10
Green apple guava is blooming
Rosemary is actively blooming again
Lavender dentata, madrid spanish, and angustifolia
blackberry already having fruit turning reddish black
Pink jasmine and honey suckle blooming
lastly stargazer lily is opening
Beets (intentionally left to bloom) and corn is blooming
Just reporting a "blooms all year" plant - I only know it as "red apple succulent ground cover" - Saw a large patch yesterday that the bees were going crazy over. I got called out on a bee "cut-out" that turned out to be one of the best urban feeding stations in the county.
I'd like to know more about this plant, if anyone is familiar with it.


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Here are 10 links to what guys and gals with keyboards are saying about ALCS Game 2 today.
• Once the rally started, it was decided that no one would move from their positions until the inning was over. To do otherwise might throw off the Yankees karma.
There was only one problem. "I had to pee really bad," Chamberlain said. "It was getting to the point where" – he paused for a second, searching for the right words – "I was going to have to figure something out," he finally said without an ounce of apology. [The LoHud Yankees Blog]
• The forces of hyperbole and epic chronicle are out in full force around the Yankee Universe today. Plant tongue-in-cheek, and let's take the tour. [Pinstripe Alley]
• There are wins, there are big wins, and there are wins that remind everyone who the team to beat is. [River Avenue Blues]
• The Yankees won Game 1 against the Rangers, but what does it mean as far as the series goes? Here are some numbers to chew on as the two teams prepare for Game 2 this afternoon. [Blogging the Bombers/NY Daily News]
• Just awful. Marchand's post goes on to say positive things about Jeter, but for him to even pose that bus analogy is mindboggling. Jeter's legacy. Really, Marchand? [lenNY's Yankees]
• After the big comeback win for the Yanks in Game 1, you wonder how a team without a lot of playoff experience, like the Rangers, will respond.
But then you remember that this is a team that, up 2-0, lost both games at home in the ALDS, only to win Game 5 on the road to advance. It was (and is) the only series in baseball history in which the road team won every game. [The Sommer Frieze]
• Frustrating game yesterday, one where the breaks all seemed to go the Yankees way. But if the Rangers can win today, they are still in very good shape going forward in the series. [Lone Star Ball]
• I suppose I should be rambling with ferocity and anguish lacing each word that spills forth from my keyboard, but that isn't the case. I'm disappointed, but calm. The series isn't over, despite whatever media-borne hyperbole you might stumble upon that argues to the contrary. Texas has pulled this resiliency act far too many times this year for me to even begin to count. [Baseball Time in Arlington]
• When I got home, I deleted all episodes of Baseball Tonight and MLB Tonight that my TiVo had recorded, I don't want to read any accounts of the game. That game pissed me off so much, I don't want to read anyone's thoughts about it. [RangersFans.com]
• Yes, the home field advantage is gone. If it's an advantage at all. This franchise is winless in seven home playoff games, including three this month. [The Newberg Report]


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Link to my Shapeways joiner page
I am thinking of a sharp curved version as well.


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Science is a dangerous business, full of risky propositions and strange experiments. And sometimes, scientists wind up going to jail for their pains. Some of them for the integrity of science, and some for far more sordid reasons.
Here are 10 scientists who spent some time in the slammer. Caged specific heat!
Top image: Sin City.
10. Stewart Nozette: From NASA to Fraud to Espionage to Prison
Sometimes things just start rolling downhill. Stewart Nozette started out working on lightweight spacecraft for NASA, and had top level clearance. And then, he wandered from the research department into accounting, and allegedly made up some fraudulent billing to NASA from a nonprofit company that he ran. When people started getting curious about this alleged fraud, Nozette apparently realized that he might need a little more money to cover things like lawyer bills, or living in a non-extradition country for the rest of his life — so when he was approached by an Israeli agent who offered money for top secret documents, he allegedly ran right out to fetch them. Alas, the Israeli agent was actually an FBI agent, since NASA likes to keep an eye on top-level clearance people whom they're also investigating for fraud. Nozette is still serving his 13 years in prison. In a statement that showcases how one can use language to edge around responsibility, he said that he regretted "failing to report," when the agent first contacted him.
9. Sir Francis Bacon Was a Good Scientist and Bad Public Figure
Sir Francis Bacon is known as a pioneer of experimental, rather than philosophical, science. The idea of experimentation is not as obvious at it would seem to us today. Science was originally "natural philosophy." Natural philosophers thought about basic philosophical truths, and built up a theory of the world using them as a starting point. Bacon, and others, came up with a new method in which a person instead set up tests, to observe the unique behavior of the phenomena they were dealing with.
But Bacon wasn't so good in discharging his duties as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor. He had fallen into debt, and had accepted many bribes sent to sway his judgment. When people inevitably noticed, he wrote and signed a confession, along with a note that read, "My lords, it is my act, my hand, and my heart; I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." Damn, that's eloquent. Still, they stripped him of his rank and fortune, and he spent some time in the Tower of London, before getting out to experiment some more.
8. Anna Freud Made the Right Enemies
Anna Freud is, perhaps, a more controversial figure than her father. She took the roiling mess of sexual dysfunction that Sigmund Freud thought explained much of the world's behavior — and applied it to children. She was a child psychoanalyst who added and expanded her father's theories all her life. She and her father were very close, and it was common knowledge that she was continuing his work.
Famously, the Nazis sought to quash what they called "Jewish science," including both the works of Freud and of Albert Einstein. And they believed the Freud family was intent on fleeing beyond their reach, despite having confiscated their money and passports. As a way of putting pressure on the whole family, the Nazis arrested and questioned Anna, jailing her for the night. The detainment of Anna had the opposite effect that the Nazis intended. Sigmund Freud had been dithering longer than most well-connected Jews, and the arrest caused him to obtain passports from a Nazi who admired his work — and then the entire family made it out of the reach of the occupying forces.
7. Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the Nobel Laureate and Preteen Hooligan
I love the word hooligan, don't you? And little Santiago must have. He was kicked out of schools again and again for disrespect towards his teachers. When he wasn't being kicked out, he would run away. His parents tried letting him stay home from school. That didn't work out either. For fun, he constructed a homemade cannon and blew up his town's gate. For this, the young Santiago spent a night in jail, making him the youngest jailbird on this list. And then he turned himself around, at least in some ways. Although he was said to be a pretty unpleasant man to be around, he did great work in neuroscience. He was a gifted anatomist, and revealed small structures and pathways in the brain that nobody else ever had, but he wasn't always right. He was quoted as saying, "the nerve pathways are something fixed, ended and immutable." Not if you look at your own life, Santiago.
6. Johann Conrad Dippel Had a Prison Lab
Johann Dippel was born in Castle Frankenstein in the mid-1600s. That is not a promising start. When he grew up, he set up a laboratory in the castle's prison, doing all kinds of experiments to gain immortality. It was rumored that he attempted to transfer the soul of one person to another via a funnel, a hose, and a lot of lubricant. He also created an "elixir of life" called Dippel's Oil, a mix of stewed animal's bones and blood that was not the secret to immortality, but turned out to make an amazing blue dye, thereafter known and marketed as Prussian Blue. Surprisingly, despite all of his scientific and pseudoscientific messing around, what got him thrown in prison for a time was the fact that he was also a theologian. Some of his teachings angered church elders, and got him tossed in prison for heresy. Apparently, they had no problem with lubricated soul transference, though.
5. Jack Kevorkian Was a Scientist and Not a Lawyer
Doctor Kevorkian earned the nickname "Doctor Death," early in his career, because he would, as a pathologist, rush to the bedsides of dying patients and take pictures, hoping to capture the moment of actual death. He wanted to set a cut-off point after which resuscitation would prove useless. Later, when he invented a "suicide machine," a machine that allowed people to trip it and inject themselves with a combination of drugs that would kill them painlessly, he spent a lot of time in prison. In 1998, Kevorkian put aside the machine and injected the lethal drugs into the patient himself — with the patient's consent. He represented himself in court. That decision got him convicted, in 1999, of second degree murder, for which he served eight years. He died in 2011.
4. Timothy Leary Was In As Many Prisons As Possible
Quite a lot of scientists have gone to prison — but it kind of looked as though one of them was trying to go to every prison, ever. Before Leary got on to LSD, he was an effective psychologist who was respected in the area of personality assessment. His early experimentation, in the scientific sense, with LSD led to just plain personal experimentation later on. And his dependence on, and faith in, the drug sent him around the world, and into and out of 29 prisons. While sitting in those various prisons, he compared himself to both Jesus and Socrates, nearly getting jailed again for causing extreme and possibly harmful public eye-rolling. When he landed in Folsom for what would be decades, he immediately turned state's evidence.
3. Klaus Fuchs Took Everyone With Him
Klaus Fuchs was a British scientist sent over, despite the protests of US military officials, with minimal security checks, to work on the atomic bomb project. And he was a spy for the Soviet Union. He passed along messages for years, and became part of a network of scientific spies. When he was picked up, in 1950, he named Harry Gold, a research chemist, as his collaborator. Gold named David Greenglass, another Manhattan Project scientist, who in turn named Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Klaus, by the way, had a conversation with Richard Feynman about espionage while they were on the Manhattan Project. They discussed their professional strengths and personal interests and both agreed that Feynman would make the more likely spy. Well played, Fuchs.
2. Richard Feynman Arrested For Breaking Into His Workplace
Richard Feynman, by all accounts, managed to be both smart and insufferable. How that balance worked out depended very much on who was attempting to suffer him, and why. The military personnel at the Los Alamos base, where a group of scientists were attempting to construct a nuclear bomb before Nazi Germany did, were not in the mood to suffer any more than strictly necessary. Feynman was fond of straining their patience by breaking in to people's lockers and safes to get documents when getting them through official channels would be too tedious. They strained his, by forcing him to go through annoying military check points whenever he had left the base and wanted to get back in. One day, instead of going through the checkpoint, he walked around the perimeter fence until he found a hole. After that, he never checked back in once he'd left. He just went through the hole. Eventually someone noticed many Richard Feynmans leaving, but no Richard Feynmans coming back in. The military police came by his quarters on the base and arrested him. He told them that they should, instead, have just fixed the hole.
1. Galileo Was Jailed (In His Home) for Jerkiness
Oh we all knew who was going to top this list! Galileo, famous for being an arrogant ass — and for actually deserving to be an arrogant ass — received special permission from the Pope to write a dialog in which he compared heliocentric and geocentric theories of the universe. He did just that, except he gave all the good arguments to the heliocentrist, named the geocentrist "the Simpleton," and had that Simpleton directly quoting the Pope. The Pope searched his soul and decided that he was supposed to display forgiveness, but not a sense of humor about himself. Although powerful political friends kept Galileo from losing his life, he spent the rest of that life under house arrest, had the copies of his book burned, and was forced to recant his views in public. He spent the last nine years of his life locked up, which makes him the longest term convict on the list.
Bacon Image: National Portrait Gallery, London
Cajal Image: Nobel Prize.org
Kevorkian Image: Halebtsi
Klaus Fuchs Image: UK National Archives
Galileo Image: RMG
Via Patch, History.com, NY Times, Countryside La Vie, Washington Post, The JC.


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We're merely a couple weeks away from the release of Disney's John Carter and I'm willing to bet that a good deal of the general public still has no idea what this movie is about. The previous trailers and TV spots have tried in vain to sell the film as a big action-adventure pic, but none of that matters if your audience doesn't understand why there are a bunch of CG people monsters hanging out in the desert. A fan-made trailer for the film has recently hit the web and it's leagues better than what the Disney marketing machine has come up with. It clearly sets up the story and rightly sells the Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation as the precursor to basically the entire sci-fi genre. From Star Wars to Avatar, Burroughs' source material served as the inspiration for some of the world's most beloved sci-fi stories, and finally the tale that started it all is getting a film adaptation of its own. That's how the movie should have been sold.
Despite the air of cynicism surrounding John Carter, I'm really pulling for the film to be a success. Having absolutely loved all of director Andrew Stanton's previous work (Wall-E, Finding Nemo), I sincerely hope he delivers an entertaining, epic sci-fi adventure. Hit the jump to watch the impressive fan-made trailer. John Carter opens in 3D on March 9th.
If you missed any of our previous John Carter coverage, including set visit interviews, behind-the-scenes feauturettes, and much more, click here.
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Here's the official synopsis for John Carter:
From Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes "John Carter"–a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). "John Carter" is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.


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The fiscal cliff compromise includes tax breaks worth $70 million over two years for the owners of race tracks like Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.
Taxpayers aren't the only ones who won't be flying off the fiscal cliff — this year, at least. Add race cars, movies and asparagus to the list.
As part of their last-second deal to slam the brakes on an economy racing toward the so-called fiscal cliff, lawmakers gave the green light this week to extending dozens of business and industry tax breaks, like a cost-recovery program that will save the owners of "motorsports entertainment complexes" (that is, racetracks) about $70 million over the next two years.
Much of the compromise agreement that President Barack Obama's autopen signed into law Thursday was targeted at individuals and families, notably preserving most of the tax cuts that passed under President George W. Bush, which were set to expire Monday. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, told MSNBC that the deal was "a big gift-wrapped present of certainty to the middle class."
But the agreement also came loaded with extensions of separate existing tax breaks for businesses and industries, many of which had expired in the past year — about $67.9 billion in all in 2013, as tabulated by Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation.
(The extensions will actually cost much more: Not only were they made retroactive to cover 2012, but some of the breaks and credits would be in effect for 10 years if left in place. Many cover only one or two years, however.)
Read the full 10-year analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation (.pdf)
In addition to extending tax breaks for racing moguls, the legislation also extended:
• A tax credit for construction of renewable energy projects, like wind turbines and biomass, geothermal and hydropower generation, for one year. It's projected to cost about $116 million, the committee said.
That may seem like a drop in the bucket, but here's the kicker: While the extension to qualify for new projects covers only 2013, the actual tax credit itself is good for 10 years. That means new projects that break ground in 2013 will be able to claim the credit for the next decade, at an overall price tag the committee put at slightly less than $12.2 billion.
• An arcane provision of corporate tax law, called active financing income, that lets U.S. corporations defer taxes on some income they earn from their overseas subsidiaries. That provision will cost the U.S. Treasury more than $9 billion this year and $1.8 billion next year.
• Tax breaks for Hollywood producers who shoot their movies and TV shows in the U.S., at a cost of about $430 million through 2014.
• A program that sends most federal taxes collected on rum produced in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands back to those territories to subsidize domestic production. Bar tab: $222 million over two years.
• A tax break worth about $15 million a year for asparagus growers hit hard by cheap asparagus imported from Peru.
• $4 million in tax breaks over the next two years for people who buy "2- or 3-wheeled plug-in electric vehicles" — in other words, electric scooters, Segways and the like.
The purpose of the deal was to prevent a series of steep spending cuts and tax increases on the middle class from automatically taking effect in the new year. But "we're not making it (the tax system) better or fairer," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said on the House floor Tuesday in explaining why he was voting against the measure.
Big policy losers in tax deal: deficit reduction and 'certainty'
"We're not getting rid of the NASCAR loophole. We're not getting rid of the electric motor scooter low-speed loophole. We're not getting rid of a whole lot of tax things that are here," Issa said.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., tells Ed Schultz how the Democrats and the White House plan to move forward, with or without House Speaker John Boehner, pictured, as a larger fight over the deficit looms.
Neither new nor secret
Although many of the provisions are being characterized as new pork barrel programs that sneaked their way into the bill under cover of darkness, there's nothing new or secret about any of them.
Most of the tax breaks had been scheduled to expire on Dec. 31, 2011, and as long ago as February, lawmakers were seeking a way to revive them.
Industries in limbo as Congress mulls expired tax breaks
Eventually, they were packaged together as the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012. It was so titled because "people need certainty to plan their finances, and businesses need certainty to hire, invest and grow," as Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee, said when the committee passed the package in August.
Once it was out of committee, the measure went nowhere. That is, until this week, when — with a lame-duck Congress just hours away from going home without having addressed the fiscal cliff — it was substituted almost word for word into the deal brokered by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
It makes up Titles III and IV of the final bill, with many of the alterations reading like this:
Paragraph (1) of section 7652(f) is amended by striking "January 1, 2012" and inserting "January 1, 2014".
(If you want to see what changed, here's the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012 (.pdf) and here are the changes made to it in the final bill (.pdf).)
Former Sens. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., left, and Erskine Bowles, D-N.C., co-chairman of President Barack Obama's 2010 deficit commission, said Congress missed a 'magic moment' to reform the tax code.
By taking the clock down to 00:00 and backing itself into a corner, Congress "missed this magic moment to do something big to reduce the deficit, reform our tax code and fix our entitlement programs," said former Sens. Erskine Bowles, D-N.C., and Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., the co-chairmen of Obama's 2010 commission responsible for finding a way out of the country's economic morass.
"We have all known for over a year that this fiscal cliff was coming," they said in a joint statement Tuesday, adding: "Yet even after taking the country to the brink of economic disaster, Washington still could not forge a common sense bipartisan consensus on a plan that stabilizes the debt."
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was less diplomatic.
"It's so incredibly disappointing that members of Congress saw fit to add hundreds of millions of dollars in special-interest handouts to the recently passed 'fiscal cliff' bill, which had the simple purpose of avoiding massive tax rate increases on average Americans," McCain said Thursday.
"It's hard to think of anything that could feed the cynicism of the American people more than larding up must-pass emergency legislation with giveaways to special interests and campaign contributors," he said. "And this growing cynicism — largely justified in my view — will make it harder for us to deliver the tough medicine needed to address our crushing national debt."
Unloved for so long, Congress not fazed by public's disapproval
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Lithuanian: 'Oh, my God. I didn't know I hit someone'
It was an emotional Thursday morning as the young Lithuanian woman accused in a near-fatal summertime hit-and-run heard directly from the construction worker she allegedly crippled. Ironically, the July 17 incident at mile marker 103.2 on eastbound Interstate 64 occurred within sight of the massive granite marker that reminds drivers of the lives lost by Virginia highway workers.
Dabbing her welling eyes with tissues provided by a sheriff's deputy, 22-year-old Vitalija Vasciunaite also covered her mouth and cried quietly as Jose Porfirio Martinez-Quinteros testified about the car that invaded the coned-off eastbound right lane where he had just finished jack-hammering concrete forms.
"It happened so suddenly," the Spanish-speaking Martinez-Quinteros said through a translator. "I heard two of the cones being hit, and I looked up and saw the lights, and then it hit me. It actually threw me 20 feet."
Martinez-Quinteros, who reportedly hasn't worked since the incident, appeared for the September 30 preliminary criminal hearing with his right arm and right leg still encased in casts and moved slowly with the aid of a walker through Albemarle Circuit Court. He has filed a $5.35-million civil suit in the same court.
Another motorist on I-64 that night testified how she had tried to warn authorities about a menace on the highway even before the crash occurred. Dara Cole of Stuarts Draft told the court she first saw a dark Buick parked on a shoulder just west of Afton Mountain. When it started moving, the car would go about 50 miles per hour and suddenly change lanes.
"It was obvious to me that the vehicle was driving erratically, and I wasn't going to take a chance going around it," said Cole, testifying that she dialed 911 on both sides of the mountain before losing sight of the vehicle as it sped up in the vicinity of the rest area about a mile past the collision site.
Senior State Trooper Thomas M. Skehan explained how he saw the injured construction worker getting treated by medics before he set off in pursuit of the vehicle. He found it at the Miller School, where Vasciunaite had been living as a guest of her alma mater at the apartment of school employee Carl "Buck" Stout.
Stout testified he had been experiencing such a nasty cough that evening, he decided rather than try to sleep he'd sit outdoors at a small table. Around 4am, he said, the 1999 Buick he had lent Vasciunaite to attend a party in Harrisonburg returned.
"She backed the car into the slot and sat there for a few minutes before getting out," Stout testified. "She stumbled a little bit, but she'd hurt her back earlier that day, so I thought maybe she was a little stiff."
Then Stout noticed something else: "She was slurring her words a little bit."
Later, Stout noticed a broken headlight and a broken mirror, and the passenger window was missing. He confronted his guest who, he said, claimed that an unknown object had struck the car. When Stout's ex-wife called from Palmyra to say that police were looking for the Buick, Stout called the police.
Trooper Skehan testified that the vehicular damage he saw included a broken bumper and a dented quarter panel and that Vasciunaite first pleaded ignorance about hitting anything.
"Then she changed her story," says Skehan, "and said, 'I know I hit something. Was it in the area of the work zone?'"
Skehan informed her that it was a human.
"She said, 'Oh, my god–- I didn't know I hit someone.'"
At 8:59am, at least five hours after the crash, police reportedly measured Vasciunaite's blood-alcohol content at .15, nearly twice the legal limit.
For Vasciunaite–- appearing in court wearing tight stone-washed jeans, black stilletos, and a long-sleeved grey t-shirt reading "Peace Billabong"–- Thursday's hearing was her first courtroom appearance since August 26. Neither she nor her business-suited attorney David Heilberg offered any comment after substitute judge David Franzen certified the felony hit-and-run and felony maiming-while-intoxicated charges.
Prosecutor Jon Zug said a misdemeanor driving-under-the-influence charge may also get certified when the grand jury meets December 6. A former basketball player whose college career ended with the charges, Vasciunaite remains free on $15,000 bail.
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The jack-hammering of one lane was being done around three am?--or have I pieced-together the jigsaw puzzle time-line incorrectly?
Who was in charge of the demolition?
As you may know, Virginia is the only state that bans the use and sale of radar detectors. There is no evidence that the radar detector ban increases highway safety. Our nation's fatality rates have fallen consistently for almost two decades. Virginia's fatality rate has also fallen, but not any more dramatically than it has nationwide. Research has even shown that radar detector owners have a lower accident rate than motorists who do not own a detector.
Maintaining the ban is not in the best interest of Virginians or visitors to the state. I know and know of people that will not drive in Virginia due to this ban. Unjust enforcement practices are not unheard of, and radar detectors can keep safe motorists from being exploited by abusive speed traps. Likewise, the ban has a negative impact on Virginia's business community. Electronic distributors lose business to neighboring states and Virginia misses out on valuable sales tax revenue.
Radar detector bans do not work. Research and experience show that radar detector bans do not result in lower accident rates, improved speed-limit compliance or reduce auto insurance expenditures.
• The Virginia radar detector ban is difficult and expensive to enforce. The Virginia ban diverts precious law enforcement resources from more important duties and this ban may be ILLEGAL.
• Radar detectors are legal in the rest of the nation, in all 49 other states. In fact, the first state to test a radar detector ban, Connecticut, repealed the law ââ?¬â?? it ruled the law was ineffective and unfair. It is time for our Virginia to join the rest of the nation.
• It has never been shown that radar detectors cause accidents or even encourage motorists to drive faster than they would otherwise. The Yankelovich ââ?¬â?? Clancy ââ?¬â?? Shulman Radar Detector Study conducted in 1987, showed that radar detector users drove an average of 34% further between accidents (233,933 miles versus 174,554 miles) than non radar detector users. The study also showed that they have much higher seat belt use compliance. If drivers with radar detectors have fewer accidents, it follows that they have reduced insurance costs ââ?¬â?? it is counterproductive to ban radar detectors.
• In a similar study performed in Great Britain by MORI in 2001 the summary reports that "Users (of radar detectors) appear to travel 50% further between accidents than non-users. In this survey the users interviewed traveling on average 217,353 miles between accidents compared to 143,401 miles between accidents of those non-users randomly drawn from the general public." The MORI study also reported "Three quarters agree, perhaps unsurprisingly, that since purchasing a radar detector they have become more conscious about keeping to the speed limit..." and "Three in five detector users claim to have become a safer driver since purchasing a detector."
• Modern radar detectors play a significant role in preventing accidents and laying the technology foundation for the Safety Warning System® (SWS). Radar detectors with SWS alert motorists to oncoming emergency vehicles, potential road hazards, and unusual traffic conditions. There are more than 10 million radar detectors with SWS in use nationwide. The federal government has earmarked $2.1 million for further study of the SWS over a three-year period of time. The U.S. Department of Transportation is administering grants to state and local governments to purchase the SWS system and study its effectiveness (for example, in the form of SWS transmitters for school buses and emergency vehicles). The drivers of Virginia deserve the right to the important safety benefits that SWS delivers.
Please sign this petition and help to repeal this ban and give drivers in Virginia the freedom to know if they are under surveillance and to use their property legally:
Hawes likes to comment on the attire and level of attractiveness of female college students. Who doesn't? It's his paper.
ââ?¬Å?Peace Billabong"???
Is her attorney so incompetent that he didn't even advise his client on appropriate courtroom attire?
Spencer is right to point that out in his piece; it's relevant.
"I didn't know I hit someone".....hmmm...yeah that thump you heard was just another safety cone...they're free game on the interstate...Oh, you didn't know that you were NOT suppose to run over the cones? Well, now you do!
Hey Radar detector guy, I completely agree with you however, here in the "commonwealth" they don't want you, just your money. They would rather try to enforce a law for revenue v. the what the citizens want.
Maybe, the year we get a strip club in this town is the same year you can smoke pot and use your radar detector leagally.
Jeff D, alot of interstate work is done at night to avoid heavy traffic volumes...just VDOT's way of trying to keep everyone happy...but you can't please everyone
There can be no excuses from this female. She whacked him good. Accidents happen, but she was obviously negligent. Sock it to her.
Bizarre headline. I'm not sure what her being Lithuanian has to do with the story. It would have been as relevant to title the article, "Woman in stone-washed jeans: "Oh my God. I didn't know I hit someone." For that matter, it's odd to spend a paragraph on the attire of her and and her lawyer. Just stick to the facts. They're sad enough on their own.
"hurt her back?" "slurred her words a bit?" "didn't know I hit someone!" How about her "BAC"(blood alcohol content)hurt(someone)!
This is another example of punks- irresponsible punks........
Not sure, but I bet the result of this in Lithuania would be a lot harsher than it will be here...........
Lithuanian? Are you serious?
What dfoes a RADAR detector have to do with hitting someone wjile you are drunk? RADAR detectors are used to slow down so that you can speed up again.
I came from a RADAR detector state and was hooked on one for many years of driving. Do the math, as you have to drive quite a distance at 10-20 mph over the limit to "save" any time at all. To save an hour the trip has to be 300 miles minimum....and you can't stop or you loose your advantage.
no way. it was the car's fault. time to sue the auto industry.
I was 18 and shooting up cocaine while driving down the interstate. It was not possible to shoot up and watch he road simultaneously, when I heard those cones bouncing off the bumper I looked up just in time to see the 2x12 lumber barricade crash into several workers with enough momentum to decapitate one of them.Another worker was dismembered (lost his arm). The maker of those lumber barricades was sued and had to pay a multi-million dollar settlement. I was never caught but I had to live with this ever since, which I believe is just punishment because both the workers were illegal aliens.
Unfortunately, it's extremely unlikely that Ms. Vasciunaite will ever be in a position to compensate her victim for the injuries he has suffered, so as soon as she has paid whatever she can and she has served her time, she should be taken directly from prison to Dulles Airport where she should be escorted onto an international flight that connects to a flight to her native country. She should NEVER be allowed to return to the United States for any reason unless and until Martinez-Quinteros has been adequately compensated (Maybe not $5.35M, but certainly more than $1M).


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International climate talks are at risk of becoming irrelevant if countries fail to substantially narrow their differences before the end of this year, a senior European diplomat warned today.
The grim prognosis by Artur Runge-Metzger, director of the climate policy division in the European commission, came at the opening of a six-day conference in China aimed at refining possible areas of agreement before crunch UN talks in Cancún in November-December.
"If Cancún does not produce a solid outcome that takes the fight against climate change forward, then I think it risks becoming irrelevant in the eyes of the world," Runge-Metzger told reporters. "We meet in these wonderful places, travel miles to come here. If this process is not effective, then people will say, 'If you can't come to agreement, then why should we bother supporting you?' "
His comments were echoed by other senior negotiators in the Chinese coastal city of Tianjin, where 3,100 negotiators, administrators, journalists and non-governmental climate activists are trying to restore credibility, trust and momentum lost after the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate change summit last year.
In the opening plenary, the UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres told participants they must "accelerate the search for common ground" so Cancún can make progress toward securing a global treaty to tackle global warming. "As governments, you can continue to stand still or move forward. Now is the time to make that choice."
The conference looks set to be a six-day reality check. Expectations among the delegates are considerably lower than they were last year. Nobody predicts a comprehensive, binding deal in Mexico, but some expressed hopes for progress on the protection of forests and the transfer of finance and technology to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
The top Chinese negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, said there was also a possibility of advances on the vexed issued of transparency – how to monitor, report and verify each nation's emissions to ensure they are honouring their pledges. This question of trust and accounting has been a key difference between the United States and China.
"I don't think this will be a major obstacle," said Xie, who said China was trying to move the process along by hosting its first UN climate talks. "We hope our efforts here will lay a sold foundation for the Cancún conference at the end of the year."
The opening day formalities saw none of the histrionics and posturing that marked much of the Copenhagen conference. It is a lower-level gathering, but observers said the mood music was positive.
"It was good, I was mildly surprised," said Kelly Dent of Oxfam. "At the risk of sounding like an optimist, what I saw today was a willingness to sit down and start working."
Climate activists warned, however, that the real test would come later in the week as participants try to trim down the 70-odd pages of the negotiating text and the 1,630 brackets that mark disputed terms and targets.
They are looking for substantive progress on financing. At Copenhagen, rich countries promised to provide $30bn (£19bn) over three years in climate funding to poor nations, increasing to a total of $100bn (£63bn) annually by 2020. But details about where this money will come from and how it will be allocated remain sketchy.
While progress will be limited – if it comes at all this week – Mexico wants to continue work in small groups all the way to Cancún – a proposal supported by China.
"It's very different from Copenhagen. That was a sobering experience that many people don't want to repeat," said Barbara Finamore, China programme director for the US-based Natural Resources Defence Council. "There is a real risk that we will lose momentum if we don't move forward. That is why people have come here to roll up their sleeves and get to work."


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text: Enormous cloudbanks roll along as day changes to night on our planet Earth in this incredibly high resolution time-lapse video. The sequence was created by James Drake, a student at the University of Victoria in Canada, using data from the Russian Federal Space Agency's Elektro-L 1 satellite. Launched in 2011, Elektro-L flies in geosynchronous orbit roughly 22,000 miles above the Indian Ocean. Every half hour, it takes a 121-megapixel image of the entire Earth. The data is used to take real-time observations of clouds and storm systems for weather forecasting. Drake first came across these images when he saw a small corner of one displayed at the website Universe Today. Instantly hooked, he typed up some e-mails, used Google Translate to convert them to Russian, and sent inquiries to Roscosmos. They put him in touch with the data company that processes the pictures, which agreed to send him more. "The first time I had downloaded the images, I got this sense of wonder and awe," he said. "I was looking at this whole disk and it's almost something that you can hold in your hand — this beautiful intricate marble, covered in a thin crust of water and air." Drake has since gathered more than 350 of these images and processed them himself. He now hosts them on his website, which zooms in on the incredibly detailed photos to feature aircraft contrails over the ocean, docks and industrial areas in China, fractal river networks in Africa, and huge cloud spirals over Ukraine. In honor of Earth Day, Wired has put together a gallery featuring his most astounding images and videos of our glorious home planet. Above: Northern Hemisphere Several days pass in this time-lapse movie, made by stitching together dozens of the high-resolution Earth images. Video: James DrakeChanging Weather The Elektro-L 1 satellite captures the changing weather of the planet below each half hour. The top image was taken May 14, while the lower image, which shows large shifting weather patterns, was taken months later, in October. These images may be among the largest single photos ever taken of our planet, according to James Drake, who processed them. You can download full-resolution, 11,000 x 11,000 pixel versions of the top and bottom images but, be warned, they are each larger than 100 MB. Images: NTs OMZAfrica and Madagascar Sub-Saharan Africa crowds against the limb of the Earth while the island of Madagascar sits to the east. Image: NTs OMZGreece and Italy The familiar boot-shaped Italian peninsula can be seen near the Earth's limb in this image. In the foreground are the Greek islands and Turkey. Image: NTs OMZBlack Sea The waters of the Black Sea separate Europe and western Asia, which meet at the Bosphorus Strait. Image: NTs OMZDown Under Nearly half the continent and country of Australia disappear just beyond where the Elektro-L satellite can see. Image: NTs OMZIndia and Sri Lanka No one could mistake the outline of the Indian subcontinent, bounded on the east and west by the ocean and the enormous Himalayas to the north. Image: NTs OMZCaspian Sea The world's largest lake, the Caspian Sea, is bounded by Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. Image: NTs OMZA River in Egypt Almost the entire length of the Nile River, the longest on Earth, can be seen winding its way through this image. Image: NTs OMZMighty Spiral An enormous spiral-shaped cloud hovers over the ocean in this image. Image: NTs OMZKorean Peninsula This picture features the eastern parts of China along with the Korean peninsula and, further back, the islands of Japan. Each picture is taken in four color channels, including one that sees infrared light. Looking closely at the lower right corner, you can spot straight lines and haze of aircraft contrails traveling between China and Japan. Image: NTs OMZWhole Earth Days pass with nothing but the tranquil changing of clouds over the entire disk of the Earth in this time-lapse video. The video's author, James Drake, says that he sometimes gets forgets about the beauty while in the middle of processing the huge amounts of data. But every once in a while he steps back and goes, "Wow." "The Earth is so complex," he said. "You can zoom in on any part and see these fractal patterns, which can keep on going in. I remember that this is our home; this is our spaceship — a tiny spinning rock orbiting a giant ball of fire. It's beautiful and absurd." Video: James Drake


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Dir: Hiroki Iwabuchi. Japan. 2012. 81mins
Hiroki Iwabuchi's low-budget documentary into how his hometown of Sendai, famed for its annual Christmas Pageant of Starlight, recovered after the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake is engaging in parts, but ultimately let down by a poorly edited structure and too much amateur-hour footage.
There are some tender shots of a friend of the director staging Christmas for his excited young children.
The on-the-ground footage of the delightful parade through the city and interviews with locals about how they embrace that time of the year work well, and it is inspiring to see how the town recovered after the earthquake, which saw much of the lighting and equipment used to stage the pageant destroyed.
The director sets his film up nicely with some early shots of happy faces of children and adults alike as the twinkling lights celebrate all that is good about that time of the year – he filmed in December 2011 – but then spends far too much time with poorly shoot footage from the local church which immediately slows down the pace and almost brings the film to an early abrupt halt.
Things do recover, and there are some tender shots of a friend of the director staging Christmas for his excited young children, but somehow what should and could have been a fascinating topic gets submerged in poorly sustained images and a rambling and unstructured format. The film had its premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
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Cinematography: Daido Yamauchi
With: Koji Shibuya, Keiko Iwabuchi, Citizens of Sendai, Toshiko Iwabuchi, Taro Ito, Toshiyuki Seto, Kenichi Maeno, Masataka Iwabuchi